Category Archives: Amateur Radio

Home Station

(original post: 26.Sep.2013 – updated 29.Nov.2014)

Here is a look at our home station. I share it with the wife, KI4BQT, and we host the club digi for the Maysville Abbey Amateur Radio Club, W4IDO.

Geof using a radio in his shack.

I’m on the air here, SSB during a SET if I recall correctly. The radio on Continue reading Home Station

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W4IDO’s Portable Station

A large toolbox with an amateur radio (Kenwood TM-V7A) mounted inside.I was tasked with figuring out a better way to operate a portable Amateur Radio station for a local Club. The normal mission assignment for this station would be as a net control station or Continue reading W4IDO’s Portable Station

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Mobile Radio setup

I got a new car, but the really great news is that means I get to do a new radio installation. Normally I would be happy to whip out the hole saw and start ripping plastic molding out but this Kia Amanti has more airbags than I’ve ever seen so I took it to a profession radio installer.

A photograph from the driver's seat looking at a radio control head and a GPS device.

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